Sarah Michelle Gellar (innate April 14, 1977) is an American actress, best known for her role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Occasionally of her virtually all commercially successful films have been horrors such as The Grudge (2004), but she has besides acted inside the kind of more motion pictures, from either family films such as Small Soldiers (1998) and Scooby-Doo (2002) to thrillers like Harvard Man (2001).

Life and career
Gellar was innate inside New York City to Jewish-American parents Arthur and Rosellen. Fallowing her parents divorced around 1984, she was brought higher by her mother. She refuses to acknowledge any relationship using her father expression "Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father." Arthur died in October 9, 2001 of unknown causes.

She has been acting since the age of iv, whilst she did a commercial for Burger King. Her right friend as a little one was Melissa Joan Hart, who late was a star of the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

Gellar's major break come around 1992 in the teen soap opera ''Swan's Crossing. From either there, she moved in to the long-running off laundry soap opera All My Children, where she played a conniving character Kendall Hart Lang, a long-misplaced girl of character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). Around 1995, at the age of Xviii, she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress around the Drama Series.

Gellar left Whole The Tikes within 1995 and landed the lead in the tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, as the teenager loaded down by using a responsibility of fighting a total of secret foes, sustaining the help of a class action of friends & her Watcher (a teacher of sorts). A indicate was swell received by critics & audiences similar, & throughout its sevener seasons, Buffy, & Gellar along sustaining her, became cult icons in the United States and the UK. Gellar besides sang many of a songs when you took the Buffy a Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More, with Feeling," which spawned an original cast album.

When continuing thereinside role, she attempted to capitalize in her television fame sequentially to produce the career for herself in motion pictures, by having intermittent commercial profits. When roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, Gellar starred in the film Simply Irresistible. This film, rumored to become a go film ever watched by critic Gene Siskel, featured a witching crab & borrowed heavy from either Like Water for Chocolate''. Gellar's next film was a steamy hit Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses; this movie gained lot exposure due to the famed girl in girl kissing scene between Sarah & Selma Blair. Likewise within 1999, she made an appearance in the Stone Temple Pilots music video Sour Girl. She so went within to play the lead role in Harvard Man.

In September 1, 2002, Gellar and teen-movie actor Freddie Prinze Jr. were married in Mexico.

Gellar noticed greater box office success playing Daphne inside Scooby-Doo, a survive-action adaptation of the cartoon series. Despite existence always panned by critics, a motion-picture show was extremely popular using audiences. Gellar as well appeared in the picture show's sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).

the season of 2004 was marked by a point of contestation within Gellar's career, when a president of her have talent professional, David Wirtschafter, indicated that he believed her movie career wwhen floundering as of fall 2004, telling The New Yorker that the profits of her on line-budget film The Grudge (a remaking of the Japanese horror film Ju-on: The Grudge) "takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and it makes her a star, potentially. Suddenly, the Sarah Michelle Gellar space is meaningful." A remark led to Gellar abandoning a professional.

Within January 2005 Gellar signed for the film A Go to which she began filming inside March of that equivalent month.Gellar finished filming A Go to in July 2005 & immediatley began cinematography Southland Tales, a film by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly in August 2005. [http://romanticmovies.about.com/od/donniedarko/a/darko052604.htm] Sarah finished motion-picture photography South Tales around October 2005 & she is presently in placed for ''The Girl's Alternative For Hunting & Camping according to a book of the equivalent title.Each A Go to & South Tales come required to exist as relase within 2006.Too in this equivalent month, Gellar is potential to run motion-picture photography Alice according to a game from either U.s. Mcgee.

Filmography

|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! Season !! Film !! Role !! More notes |- | 2007 || Alice'' || Alice ||pre-production (see likewise American McGee's Alice) |- | 2007 || ''A Girl's Guide For Hunting And Fishing || Jane Rosenal || Filming |- | 2006 || Southland Tales || Krysta Now || Post-production |- | 2006 || The Return || Joanna Mills || Complete |- | 2005 || Happily N'Ever After || Cinderella || Animation; Complete |- | 2004 || The Grudge || Karen Davis ||   |- | 2004 || Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed || Daphne Blake ||   |- | 2002 || Scooby-Doo || Daphne Blake ||   |- | 2001 || Harvard Man || Cindy Bandolini ||   |- | 1999 || Cruel Intentions || Kathryn Merteuil ||   |- | 1999 || Simply Irresistible || Amanda Shelton ||   |- | 1999 || She's All That || Girl in Cafeteria || Bit part; uncredited |- | 1998 || Small Soldiers || Gwendy Doll || Voice |- | 1997 || Scream 2 || Casey "Cici" Cooper ||   |- | 1997 || I Know What You Did Last Summer || Helen Shivers ||   |- | 1989 || High Stakes || Karen Rose || Credited as "Sarah Gellar" |- | 1988 || Funny Farm'' || Elizabeth's student || Bit part; uncredited |- | 1984 || Over the Brooklyn Bridge || Phil's daughter || Minor role; uncredited |}

Television
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1998)... (voice) Andromeda Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)....Buffy Summers Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997)... Jane Robinson All About Erica (1994)... (archive footage) Kendall Hart All My Children (1993-1995)... Kendall Hart #1 ''Swan's Crossing (1992)... Sydney Orion Rutledge A Woman Named Jackie (1991)... teen Jacqueline Bouvier Spenser: For Hire, episode: "Company Man" (#3.Xvii) (1988)... Emily An Invasion of Privacy (1983)... Jennifer Bianchi

Gellar has hosted Saturday Night Live'' several times.